According to the Pediatric Academic Societies, the goal of the annual meeting is “to bring together a variety of groups to not only discuss original research, which has been the hallmark of the PAS meeting, but to also discuss how this research can be applied to actual clinical practice in pediatrics.”

James F. Padbury, MD, is pediatrician-in-chief and chief of neonatal/perinatal medicine at Women & Infants and the Oh–Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics and Perinatal Research at Brown University, is set to present multiple abstracts with his colleagues. “The PAS meeting is the largest meeting of the year for academic pediatrics. It includes the Society for Pediatric Research and all the subspecialty society meetings for hematology/oncology, nephrology, endocrinology, infectious diseases, and child neurology. There are a number of international pediatric research organizations that also participate. It attracts almost 10,000 physicians and scientists from the United States and around the world,” said Dr. Padbury. “These annual meetings are incredibly important for continued scientific exchange, networking, learning, getting new ideas, and presenting new work to the pediatrics community.”

Giving invited presentations from Women & Infants and The Alpert Medical School are:

Drs. Juan Sanchez-Esteban and James Padbury, “Expression of Inter-alpha Inhibitor Genes and Proteins after Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury in Neonatal Rats”

About Pediatric Academic Societies
The Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) Annual Meeting is the largest international meeting focusing on research in child health while providing a unique venue for interdisciplinary scientific interactions.

The PAS is committed to presenting a high-quality program addressing all aspects of academic pediatrics. Our goal is to present a wide range of cutting-edge science, from basic to translational (pre-clinical), clinical and health services research, that reflects our diverse pediatric academic disciplines.

About Women & Infants Hospital

Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, a Care New England hospital, is one of the nation’s leading specialty hospitals for women and newborns. A major teaching affiliate of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University for obstetrics, gynecology and newborn pediatrics, as well as a number of specialized programs in women’s medicine, Women & Infants is the 9th largest stand-alone obstetrical service in the country and the largest in New England with approximately 8,500 deliveries per year. A Designated Baby-Friendly® USA hospital, U.S.News & World Report 2014-15 Best Children’s Hospital in Neonatology and a 2014 Leapfrog Top Hospital, in 2009 Women & Infants opened what was at the time the country’s largest, single-family room neonatal intensive care unit.

Women & Infants and Brown offer fellowship programs in gynecologic oncology, maternal-fetal medicine, urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, neonatal-perinatal medicine, pediatric and perinatal pathology, gynecologic pathology and cytopathology, and reproductive endocrinology and infertility. It is home to the nation’s first mother-baby perinatal psychiatric partial hospital, as well as the nation’s only fellowship program in obstetric medicine.